Introduction: Kaleidoscoping the Open
Ned Dodington and Elizabeth Sutton
Section I
Representations
Introduction to Section I: Representations
Elizabeth Sutton
1. Look into my Eyes: Pictorial Boundaries and the Dog’s Gaze
Laura D. Gelfand
2. The Cat in Manet’s Olympia: Animality, Sensuality, and Femininity in Modernity
Elodie Silberstein
3. The Sacred Cow
Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi
4. At the Threshold of the Visible: Animal Gaze as Artistic Ideal and Its Historical Foundations
Roni Grén
5. Wherefore Art Thou Mule?
Jessica Dallow
Section II
Engagements
Introduction to Section II: Engagements
Elizabeth Sutton
6. Framing the Animal Other: Deconstructing the “Animal” in the work of Gustafsson&Haapoja
Terike Haapoja
7. Looking at and for Tidnish Mountain
Matt Brower
8. Necrophagous Archives: Looking at the Vultures in Ravi Agarwal’s Mixed Media Installations
Sreyashi Ray
9. Conservation as Curation: Maintaining the Beautiful
Yolandi M. Coetser
10. How Far So Near: Exploring Collaboration Across Distance, Species, and Time
Angela Bartram
11. Aesthetic Encounters Beyond the Human: Artistic Cohabitation and Collaboration as Utopian Multispecies Practice
Jessica Ullrich
12. Groundwork: Soil Ecologies and the Future of Animal Studies
Giovanni Aloi
Section III
Hybridities
Introduction to Section III: Hybridities
Ned Dodington
13. An Interview with Amy Haigh
Amy Haigh and Ned Dodington
14. Birds, Bats, and Bacardi: Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Conception of Land(scape)
Ryan Ludwig
15. Nesting: What Does It Mean to Build Like a Bird?
Paul Dobraszczyk
16. Co-Design Across Species: Architectural Authorship and Animal Agency
José Ibarra
17. Synanthropic Practice
Sarah Gunawan
18. Echolocation and Exile: A Big Brown Bat's Perspective on Fritz Haeg's Animal Estates
Fritz Haeg
19. Theriomorphing: Design and Life-Worlds
Simone Ferracina
Section IV
Diverse Pedagogies
Introduction to Section IV: Diverse Pedagogies
Ned Dodington
20. Bestial Urbanism: Teaching the More-than-Human City
Richard Fadok
21. In Consideration of Neighbors
Joyce Hwang
22. Messy Pedagogy: Taking Animals Seriously in an Art History Course
J. Keri Cronin
23. Pedagogical Lessons in Art and Animal Study
Sharon P. Holland
Biography
Elizabeth Sutton is Professor of Art History and Head of the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. She specializes in globalization and power in art as well as active pedagogical research.
With Ned Dodington who is founder and chief editor of The Expanded Environment and an accomplished architect, designer, design thinker, and advocate for non-human animal agency in the built environment.
